FIDEL CASTRO, THE VIKING AND THE EMBARGO - Nov 13,2012

The Guardian's Ian Williams Lobbied for Bashar al-Assad's Syria to Join UN Security Council How is it that the Assad regime, led by father and son, was able to retain the international legitimacy needed to retain power over 42 years, despite perpetrating systematic brutality, such as the killing of an estimated 20,000 citizens of Hama in February 1982, and being listed as a leading state sponsor of terrorism? A key factor was that the world body mandated to hold such criminal regimes to account — the United Nations — turned a blind eye to Syrian murder, massacre and terror. Prior to last year's Arab Spring, during the decades that Mideast dictators were strong, neither the U.N.'s General Assembly or its Human Rights Council ever passed a single resolution on Hama — or on any other barbaric Syrian human rights violation. SyndicatedNews.NET joins the ranks of the many other publishers that publish Ian Williams work.

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